Is there hope for recovery after trauma? You bet! Each week on YOUR LIFE AFTER TRAUMA I’ll be talking to survivors and healing professionals who share their proof that trauma can be overcome and how you can access your own healing potential.
This week my guests are:
1- Dr. Jennie Goldenberg to discuss how to access resilience and find meaning after trauma.
2 – in honor of veterans day, the author, John Wesley Fisher, discussing his book, ‘The War After The War’.
The show airs Thursday, May 24th, 7:05-8pm EST on Seaview Radio in Florida, 95.9FM/106.9FM/960AM. If you’re not local you can listen by clicking on the LISTEN LIVE button at the top of this post!
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Our Next Guests on ‘Your Life After Trauma’:
Jennie Goldenberg, LCSW, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College M.S.S. Bryn Mawr College, BA Temple University
Dr. Goldenberg has a clinical practice in Bangor, specializing in adult survivors of traumatic stress. She is Senior Researcher for the Transcending Trauma Project, a qualitative research study of Holocaust survivors and the intergenerational transmission of both trauma and resilience in survivor families. Her current research focuses on the long-term developmental impacts of genocide and ethnic conflicts on adolescent survivors, on causal attributions of survivors of childhood trauma, and on the development of resilience theory and its integration into clinical practice. Dr. Goldenberg teaches courses in human behavior, research, and trauma at the School of Social Work.
John Wesley Fisher writes: I was born in post war Boston and raised in San Diego. As a young man living on the beach, it wasn’t long before a surfing fascination developed into a highly competitive sport. Unfortunately, the timing of my birth set me first in line for a tour of duty in 1968 Vietnam to serve with the Fourth Infantry Division. When discharged into an anti-war society, my baffled brain sought isolation and traveling the world seeking the perfect wave seemed like the only natural thing to do.
It was in Perth, Western Australia that I discovered my life’s calling. Dr. Jim, also an avid surfer, was an enthusiastic chiropractor and quickly turned me onto the profession. After graduating magna cum laude in 1977 from Palmer College of Chiropractic, I settled in Golden, Colorado and into a busy practice. Life seemed perfect, married with two beautiful daughters, then my nephew deployed over to the Persian Gulf and into a Desert Storm conflict.
Unbeknownst to me, a well-depressed post-traumatic stress disorder had been primed for eruption. After a twenty-year marriage dissolved, the search for healing began, but being a wholistic doctor, I wasn’t interested with the medical protocol for treating PTSD. This lead to a ten year journey: non-medicated psych therapy, authoring two novels, traveling back to the land of my nightmares, then finally learning of the true cause to my strife.
Michele struggled with undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for 24 years. Then she was diagnosed and went on a healing rampage! Today she inspires trauma survivors to overcome depression, anxiety and fear.
